Spec cpu2000 is a software benchmark product produced by the standard performance evaluation corp. A workload characterization of the spec cpu2017 benchmark. Versatile place and route vpr is a componentlevel benchmark program contained in spec cpu2000 package. Standard performance evaluation corporation wikipedia. Corporation spec announced cpu2006 2, which replaces cpu2000. Cantin department of electrical and computer engineering 1415 engineering drive. B to 1mb with 64b blocks and associativities of 1, 2, 4. Computer organization and design, revised printing, third. The standard performance evaluation corporation spec is an american nonprofit corporation that aims to produce, establish, maintain and endorse a standardized set of performance benchmarks for computers spec was founded in 1988.
History issues preventing comparison the spec cpu suites. The acer aspire 5735z is a lowpriced mainstream notebook with a 15. Specs version of gzip performs no file io other than reading the input. More specifically, the sparskitii library for the manipulation of sparse matrices, the perfect benchmarks, the spec cpu2000 collection and the pltmg package for solving elliptic partial differential equations are characterized in detail. Establishes database management systems, standards, guidelines and quality assurance for database deliverables, such as conceptual design, logical database, capacity planning, external data interface specification, data loading plan, data maintenance.
Vtune analyzer was used to calibrate and collect data from the performance counters. Software applications also have differing performance requirements. Spec cpu2000 performance on dell poweredge servers dell. Explanations from the testers for what all those cryptic flags in. Document structure and terminology follow the current ietf rfcs 1242 5 and 2544 7 and the draft ipsec benchmarking terminology. What does the user of the spec cpu2000 suite have to provide. This archive includes all necessary simulators from simplescalar tool suite and alpha binaries of spec cpu2000 benchmarks. Download citation spec cpu2006 benchmark descriptions on august 24. The article discusses how spec developed this benchmark suite and what. The four measurements described above, after they were completely tuned and working on.
Where arch is alpha or sparc, opsys is linux or tru64, benchmark is the name of the spec binary e. In order to build, compile and run the spec cpu 2000, spec proposes rules and regulations that need to be followed. The memory behavior of data structures in c spec cpu2000. Benign activities include mibench 34 and spec2006 35, linux system programs. Computer organization and design, revised printing. Spec cpu2000 benchmark suite for processors spec web99 benchmark for web servers eembc benchmark for embedded systems amd opteron memory hierarchy amd vs. Could apples spec benchmark results be too good to be true. On august 24, 2006, the standard performance evaluation corporation spec announced cpu2006 the next generation of industrystandardized cpuintensive benchmark suite. Characterization studies performed on the previous spec cpu2000 and spec cpu2006 showed that these benchmarks match the evolution of. Pdf a comparison of hep code with spec benchmarks on multi.
Table 1 lists some aggregate properties of the benchmarks we study, including average instructions per cycle ipc and missrates at the level1 data dl1 and level2 l2 caches. Vpr demonstrates speed and throughput of performing placeandroute design task. Execution characteristics of spec cpu2000 benchmarks. Its replacement is cpu2000, a new cpu benchmark suite with 19 applications that have never before been in a spec cpu suite. For this, a 4level cell pcm with bch codes is considered. Memory behavior of the spec2000 benchmark suite request pdf.
Highlights the latest developments in architecture in real stuff sections. Pointers to all spec cpu2000 benchmark results published on the spec web site since the benchmark debuted in december 1999. Descriptions of the major data structures in figure 3. Program behavior characterization through advanced kernel. It was published by standard performance evaluation corporation spec to evaluate computeintensive integer performance of fpga during placeandroute design process spec. Spec cpu2006 benchmark descriptions acm digital library. Also, the need of appropriate compilers to keep up with those advanced architectures to maximize the performance has evoked interests in researchers to understand the impact of compilers on performance characteristics. Spec cpu2000 provides benchmarks in the form of source code, which are compiled according to the rules contained in this document. The goal of this test was to use the spec cpu2000 benchmark software to compare the relative performance of the three systems with.
The benchmark runs as a compiler with many of its optimization flags enabled. Spec cpu2000 includes 11 integer applications and 14 floatpoint applications, and the detailed description of each application is given in ref. Today the corporation consists of over 60 wellknown companies. The spec benchmarks are the most widely used benchmarks for reporting workstation and pc performance. Using machine learning to guide architecture simulation. Cache performance for selected spec cpu2000 benchmarks. It is expected that a tester can obtain a copy of the suites, install the hardware, compilers, and other software described in another testers result disclosure. The spec cpu suites test cpu performance by measuring the run time of several programs such as the compiler gcc, the chemistry program gamess, and the.
The benchmark suite is chosen to stress a processor across its many components in a rigorous manner. Henning, secretary, spec cpu subcommittee, and performance engineer, sun microsystems. The search program is now closed, but historical information about the program is. According to its description in the cpu2000 documentation, it uses an. Tls parallelization yielded n averagea 120% speedup onfour floating point appli cations and 70% speedup on three integer applications, while requiringonly approximately 80 programmer hours and 150 lines of nontemplate code per application. The hardware software interface, 3rd edition solution manual. Build if needed, run, check for correct answers, and generate reports 2. Spec cpu2000 benchmarks measure the performance of the processor, memory and compiler used on the tested system and do not stress on io devices, networking and the operating system. The spec benchmarks this page describes the spec benchmarks, giving their history, a description of how they are measured and how the scores are calculated, and useful formulas for converting between one spec benchmark and another.
Standard performance evaluation corporation spec cpu benchmark suite which was first released in 1989 as a collection of 10 computationintensive benchmark programs average size of 2. Benchmark execution will always use the runspec action validate signifying the following. The ipsec benchmark implementation agreement is a text description of the benchmark itself. First round spec cpu89 10 programs yielding a single number second round spec cpu92 spec cint92 6 integer programs and spec cfp92 14 floating point programs compiler flags can be set differently for different programs third round spec cpu95. The benchmark version uses almost exclusively integer arithmetic. Intel centrino duo mobile technology performance brief.
In particular, split li cache sizes ranging from 4k. Software algorithm engineer ambarella santa clara, ca. Meeting at jlab, the chair of ihepccc now disbanded requested. Spec cpu2006 benchmark descriptions descriptions written by the spec cpu subcommittee and by the original program authors 1. The cpu2000 benchmark tests are designed to provide a comparative measure of computeintensive performance across different hardware platforms. Computer organization and design the hardwaresoftware.
Performance characterization of spec cpu2006 benchmarks. Cache performance for selected spec cpu2000 benchmarks article in acm sigarch computer architecture news 294. Cache performance of the spec92 benchmark suite, jeffrey d. The benchmarks in the integer suite, the source language and a brief description. Tutorial on npfs ipsec forwarding benchmark ee times. This can allow it to run faster by fitting more data into cache. The compiled benchmarks were run on a pentium iv based system. Spec, a nonprofit group composed of computer vendors, research organizations, systems integrators, and universities, works to create, maintain, and endorse a standardized group of benchmarks. The spec cpu2017 benchmark suites are the latest in a series of standard benchmarks designed to stress a modern computer systems processor, memory, and compilers 1 2. Benchmarks, inputs and simulation intervals this paper presents a characterization of 12 of the 15 c benchmarks in the spec cpu2000 benchmark suite. Though the x32 abi limits the program to a virtual address space of 4 gib, it also decreases the memory footprint of the program by making pointers smaller. Spec, a nonprofit group that includes computer vendors, systems integrators, universities, research organizations, publishers and consultants from around the world. If you cant create this structure youll have to mess with cpu2000.
It managers can check the relative performance of the workstations under their aegis with the cpu2000 benchmark. Some of the simulators have been modified by our research group members, e. Spec release 1 is a cpu benchmarking suite of four integer benchmarks written in c and six. The hardware software interface, 3rd edition removed.
Spec cpu2000 is the nextgeneration industrystandardized cpuintensive benchmark suite. Compare your ingame fps to other users with your hardware. The implementation resulted in source code benchmarks developed from real user applications. Develop webbased data processing platform for automotive adas and autonomous driving. Its replacement is cpu2000, a new cpu benchmark suite with 19 applications that. Spec cpu2000 benchmarks meas ure the performance of the processor, memory and compiler us ed on the tested system and do not stress on io devices, networ king and the operating system. This page describes the spec benchmarks, giving their history, a description of. The benchmarks were compiled with identical optimization switches in both compilers and the performance metrics were collected using intels vtune performance analyzer. Just in case you thought you were going to knock out a cpu2000 integer and floating point run both base and peak pretty quickly, think again. Spec designed cpu2000 to provide a comparative measure of compute intensive performance across the widest practical range of hardware. Spec benchmarks are widely used to evaluate the performance of computer systems.
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